Curriculum vitae
Career, education, skills, honors and awards.
Professional experience
Data Scientist / Researcher
Mar 2023 – present- VR/AR, real-time object detection algorithms (YOLO), evolutionary algorithms and time series.
- Scientific paper co-authoring.
- Team-wise MLOps technology and procedures implementation.
- Preparing and presenting proposals and R&D grants, managing client relationships.
Co-founder & CEO
Oct 2012 – presentGeolocation and communication apps: 25+ apps, 35k+ downloads.
- General management, product owner and project management, business development, BI and marketing.
- UI/UX design and user A/B tests.
- Development and production of the apps.
- Products: Nik Hondartzak (beach app for Gipuzkoa), LPA Beach and more, on the Tokitek page.
Data Scientist & Developer
2022 – present- Brought to production an end-to-end crypto and FOREX trading bot for 2 exchanges.
- Backtesting, parallelization, REST connections, 15-minute time frame, strategies over portfolios of 100+ instruments, and a monitoring dashboard.
Data Scientist
Apr 2019 – Oct 2022- Completed an end-to-end supply-chain buying recommender system: 2M USD/month spend, 1k+ product segments, time-series demand forecasting (8 algorithms), Newsvendor problem and business-rules parametrization.
- Transformed the catalog ontology: PCA, UMAP, t-SNE, k-means, hierarchical clustering, random forest, XGBoost, H2O, SOM, (dis)similarity matrices and 3D visualization.
- 200+ data analyses and business decision-support tools (Google Sheets/Slides, Shiny, notebooks).
- Migration to Databricks with tech leads and data engineers.
- Built an R library for projects and analytics.
- Scientific documentation (LaTeX).
- Led the inventory data squad; PM and PO of the buying recommender; onboarding.
Data Product Manager
Sep 2018 – Apr 2019Initiated an 830k EUR EC-funded RFCS project with steel-sector partners (Gestamp, Gescrap, CELSA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).
- Designed the initial product and interviewed the 3 partners.
- Defined and assisted project planning and coordination.
- Scope: big data, IoT and ML applied to manufacturing, a system that tracks process and worker signals to propose lean-manufacturing, health and safety improvements.
Controller & Analytics
Apr 2009 – Sep 2012- Launched the Spanish and LATAM subsidiary.
- Built a corporate tool for financial and technical project evaluation.
- Liaison with the CFO in Beijing; US-GAAP/IFRS compliance and consolidation reporting.
- Due diligence of 50+ investment opportunities; business development.
- KPIs for company performance.
Senior Consultant
Jan 2006 – Apr 2009- Delivered 8 projects: supply chain, logistics, operations and management consulting.
- Logistic network reorganization; transport and distribution feasibility studies.
- Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) definition for world-class ports.
- Algorithm design (Croston, Holt-Winters, TSP); process and queue simulation; BI.
Consultant
Jul 2003 – Jan 2006Functional design of management and reporting tools for the MIS department of a top-2 Spanish bank: gap analysis of corporate information repositories, functionality proposals, preliminary application designs and master plans.
Tokitek
Co-founder and CEO of Tokitek Innovation: location-first mobile and web apps, built and maintained end to end. Products include Nik Hondartzak (beach occupancy for Gipuzkoa, 30,000+ downloads in its first week), LPA Beach, Caostica and platforms such as Eventoki and Udaltoki.
See the Tokitek page →Education
Master's degree in Business Administration (Licenciatura ADE, Operations Research)
1999 – 2004MBA Management Development (Desarrollo Directivo)
2003 – 2004Data Science Expert (postgraduate)
2018Also: Big Data for Industry (2018), Power BI (2018), Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Electronic Engineering BS
In progressMOOCs
Online courses with certificates (PDF).
Machine Learning
View certificate (PDF)Social Network Analysis
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Certifications
Skills
Methods
Coding
Data
BI
Soft skills
Languages
Honors & awards
KOPURU data challenge
1st place
Fault detection in relay tests: quality control, statistical process control, R + Shiny.
Entrepreneurship challenge
Challenge "Apps que fomenten el emprendimiento en la ciudad" (apps fostering entrepreneurship in the city).
BEAZ grants
2 grants: Sky Solar and Tokitek (project Eldertoki).
Route optimizer
TSP genetic algorithm (repo genetic-algo).
GAIA
Associate member of GAIA, the Basque Electronics and ICT Cluster.